I fell in love in 1976 and I am still as in love today as I was the first time I saw her. It happened only weeks after my Chevy Vega with its aluminum engine locked down and blew the engine.
I walked onto a used car lot in Columbia, S.C., saw her and it was love at first sight. But I still was going to play hard to get. So I said to the car dealer who was asking $1,400 for the 1972 light tan VW Beetle that I would give him $1,100 even, everything I had in my saving account.
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